# elastic/elasticsearch — GitHub star history and repository health Canonical HTML: https://gitdebt.com/elastic/elasticsearch Status: analyzed. Every figure below is measured — star history from gitdebt's Postgres cache, repository health from the public Git history. Private repositories are never analyzed or counted. ## Star snapshot | Metric | Value | | --- | --- | | GitHub stars | 77,917 | | Series | public star actions (historical data) | | Star events observed | 84,944 | | History covers | 2011-02-12 to 2026-09-15 | | Repository created | 2010-02-08 | The series records public star *actions* and cannot see unstars, so it is an attention signal rather than a net-star curve. The GitHub star total above is the headline figure. ### Growth records | Window | Stars gained | Dates | | --- | --- | --- | | Best day | +249 | 2024-10-31 | | Best week | +790 | 2024-10-29 to 2024-11-04 | | Best 30 days | +1,346 | 2017-01-04 to 2017-02-02 | ### Milestones | Stars | First reached | Days from creation | | --- | --- | --- | | 100 | 2011-03-16 | 401 | | 1,000 | 2011-12-02 | 662 | | 10,000 | 2015-03-20 | 1,866 | ## Repository health Raw figures over the trailing 90 days, computed from the public Git history. gitdebt publishes the counts rather than a grade here: judge them against what the project claims to be. | Reading | Figures | | --- | --- | | Maintenance | 3,722 commits in the last 90 days, 4,314 in the 90 before · last commit 2026-09-01 | | Ownership | 28 of 2,528 contributors write half of 99,277 attributed commits · top author 4,942 commits | | Repair load | 54,803 of 881,920 file changes came from fix-labelled commits | | Debt markers | +2 TODO/FIXME markers in the last 90 days · 2 outstanding | | Change hotspot | `muted-tests.yml` · 7,392 changes · 925 fix-labelled | | File freshness | 36,621 of 138,813 tracked files touched in the last year | | Commits read | 105,191 (full commit history) | | Analysis last ran | 2026-09-01T16:50:42Z | ## Put this in a README Three paste-ready snippets for `elastic/elasticsearch`. Every URL is a plain public image: no account, token, build step, or GitHub Action. Each snippet already carries light and dark variants, alt text, and the link back to the report. ### Metrics badge Stars and forks in one compact chip. Goes in the badge row directly under the project title. ```html elastic/elasticsearch stars and forks ``` ### Star history The full cumulative star curve. Goes in a `## Star history` section near the bottom of the README, above License. ```html elastic/elasticsearch star history ``` ### Repository card Stars, forks, contributors, languages, and a 90-day sparkline in one panel. Goes in an About or Project status section. ```html elastic/elasticsearch repository statistics ``` Snippets are static by design, because motion in somebody else's README should be their decision: add `animate=1` to an SVG URL when it is wanted and it plays in a GitHub README, or use the `.gif` variant for a surface that takes raster alone. Keep the surrounding link and its `?ref=readme` — attribution lives on the link, never in an image URL — and do not add cache-busting parameters. The complete asset catalog, with every snippet, is at https://gitdebt.com/badges.md. ## Live data - Repository on GitHub: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch - Star history JSON: https://api.gitdebt.com/api/repos/elastic/elasticsearch/stars.json - Star history CSV: https://api.gitdebt.com/api/repos/elastic/elasticsearch/stars.csv - Repository-health summary: https://api.gitdebt.com/api/repos/elastic/elasticsearch/health.json - Repository-health detail: https://api.gitdebt.com/api/repos/elastic/elasticsearch/stats.json - Earned badges: https://api.gitdebt.com/api/repos/elastic/elasticsearch/earned-badges.json - Queue and ETA snapshot: https://api.gitdebt.com/api/repos/elastic/elasticsearch/progress.json